These are songs about persons whose finesse transports them toward connection among a macrocosm of education also education, whether as a kid (Wizard), a overlooked partner (The Scientist’s Bride), inexperienced boyfriends (Archive Song) or as a observer confronted beside the relentless proceed of industrialisation (Railway Clock).

Pair appealing influential placements (Astrolabe, Orrery) transport to psyche a past century of scientific probe, plus the candlelit privacy of the seeker.

The music is slim, hearty, live besides harmonically peculiar. Thieves’ Cookery renews to disclose the inquisitiveness plus feel of melodious saga seen in their previous book, Digit for Grieve, Couple for Felicity.